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🌿 Sacred Smoke of the Americas: Native American & Colonial Hemp Before the U.S. outlawed cannabis, and long before industrial hemp became a cash crop, the Americas had their own sacred plants and medicinal traditions . While cannabis wasn’t native to North America , European hemp and cannabis arrived and blended into colonial and indigenous practices . Native American & Colonial Hemp Native American Traditions Indigenous peoples revered tobacco as the primary sacred plant. The peace pipe — used in ceremonies , council meetings, and spiritual rituals — almost always contained tobacco, sometimes blended with other herbs such as sage, sweetgrass, or bearberry. Cannabis wasn’t widely used pre-Columbus, but some tribes may have experimented with it once European hemp arrived. “The pipe is the voice of the spirits. Smoke carries prayers to the Creator.” — Indigenous wisdom Medicine men and shamans used plants as bridges between the human and spirit world. While c...